Jesus Christ Pose

Album: Badmotorfinger (1991)
Charted: 30
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  • Chris Cornell struck the Jesus Christ pose for the last time when he performed the song with Soundgarden at the Fox Theatre in Detroit on May 17, 2017. He was found dead later that night.

Comments: 21

  • Michael from HoustonI had always heard Chris Cornell found Andrew Hood (Mother Love Bone) laid out in the kitchen from a heroin overdose, and he was on his back with his arms stretched out, and the song was about him.
  • Dan Gillespy from Courtenay BcA perfect hard rocking grunge classic.
  • Bubblesk from Memphis, TnWhat technical proficiency this song has! I've been a Soundgarden fan from the early days & continue to be. The song has a strange yet interesting background to it. While not as catchy a tune as their others, it displays their instrumental prowess to advantage. Yeah.
  • Bobby from Athens, GreeceBy the way guys, did you know that a same-titled song is in Wheedle's Groove's album "Kearney Barton"? Barton was a great sound engineer and his work can be credited with forging the powerful aural esthetic that became widely known as the "original Northwest Sound".
    http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=8719
    http://www.thrilljockey.com/catalog/?id=104229
  • Ammon from Houston, TxThis is certainly not Soundgarden's best song to listen to, but one of the more technical, and does a great job of showing off the backing instruments. The drums are insane and the bass is comparable to RHCP's Coffee Shop.

    Also, ANYTHING off of Badmotorfinger>Smells Like Teen Spirit.
  • Pete from New Haven, Ctsorry kurt, though its not my favorite SG song. 4th of july gets the award for the heaviest. taking into account the subject matter of course. pete, way too new england
  • Greg from Port St. Lucie, Fldigitaldreamdoor.com didn't rank this as the greatest song of the 90's. Smells Like Teen Spirit received that honor. In fact, this song wasn't even in the top 200. But they did rank it as Soundgarden's best song (yet Black Hole Sun ranks as # 19 on the greatest songs of the 90s)
  • Gaelan from Linwood, CanadaThis is not the song where Cornell hits his highest recorded note, the highest note Cornell has ever recorded is on Say Hello 2 Heaven by Temple Of The Dog.
  • Dylan from New Britain, CtIts probobly in the top 5 for greatest songs of the nineties. Like Smells Like Teen Spirit, Jeremy, plus some other songs im sure are up there
  • Brandon from Saskatoon, Canadaat the start, it's just too noisy
  • Ringgo from Montclair, CaStill to me the best Soundgarden hard rock song. I've often wondered if Audioslave could pull off covering this song, knowing how fast this thing is, especially the drums (not that Brad Wilk's not a good drummer ; he's great. Just wondering if they can do it, that's all)
  • Matt from Millbrae, Cachris cornell could probably peel the paint off of walls if he wanted to...besides freddie mercury and robert plant, hes the best ever.
  • Greg from Erie, PaI wonder what Cornell thinks of Kanye, then?
  • Josh from New York, Nythis song absolutely owns smells like teen spirit. it's not even close. this actually takes talent - the drum intro is insane and cornell has amazing range on this.
  • E from Vancouver, Canadamaybe not the best song, but im sure their reason for puting it at #1 was originality. Personally I would say its one of the best of the 90s.
  • Matt from Millbrae, Cai agree with Luke. this is not the greatest song of the 90's. nirvanas got to be up there along with other good bands. this song is good but not THAT good
  • Luke from Manchester, EnglandGreat song but greatest song of the nineties?

    Better than anything By Slayer? Iron Maiden? Pantera? Sepultura?... I doubt it very much
  • Nick from San Francisco, CaThis isn't close to Soundgarden's best song, let alone the best of the decade. digitaldreamdoor is full of morons. Trust me, I've been there, I know...
  • Reed from Hagerstown, Inawesome song and great message. www.digitaldreamdoor.com ranked it as the greatest song of the nineties.
  • Kurt from Downers Grove, IlThis is probably Soundgarden's heaviest song; when I saw them in concert in 1996, they closed the show with this.
  • Jenn from Old Orchard Beach, MeActually the video used to be played on MTV's Headbangers' Ball
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